Home dialysis, garbage, and privacy: Nothing is trivial in home hemodialysis.

To the Editor: The clinical and economic advantages of home hemodialysis are increasingly recognized1,2,3. Its rediscovery confronted us with new problems, one of which has never extensively reported: waste material4. In 2000, we added waste disposal to our all-inclusive-dialysis service to avoid environmental contaminations, and with the intention of reducing the psychologic burden of dealing with blood-stained waste.